Friday, August 16, 2024

13 August 2024 Toronto: We Have Arrived!

 



On the 12th we spent the entire day flying.  Tulsa to Dallas then Dallas to Toronto.  We did not arrive till 11PM after losing an hour to the time zones.  We stayed at an Airport Hotel and took an Uber over to the AirBnB around 1 PM the next day.  We had a great, hibernation worthy, sleep session at the Westin.  The AirBnB is large, is an easy 2 minute walk to the shore of the lake, has a view of the water, is blessed with a large amount of balcony space and is ours for the next 28 days.  There were a few things that were not right.  Dirty windows, a mess on the balcony and some bad pots and pans.  No problem we just dove in and cleaned off a section of the balcony for our use.  We cleaned off the glass panels, swept up the dust and dirt and set up our balcony command central.  


Our building


The neighborhood has many high-rises


We stop for Canadians


Canadian version of Graffiti 


An odd sparrow, perhaps a swamp sparrow


This old house


Deep green 


Butterfly habitat means bird habitat too


Cat habitat as well


We will walk over this pedestrian bridge 


the view of the skyline


Lunch at Eden before we head to the store


Yes they have hot pepper oil!


Splitting a pizza


The flowers along the lake are just as nice as they were at our last Toronto stay


there is a perk next to our building


A small building completely overgrown with ivy


Just the little flag sticking out


These buildings must have been purposely made to grow vines on top of them


Cleaned glass panel on the right original dirt on the left


Original dirt on the balcony


Cleaned balcony


The dirt that was removed


Command central is in place


View from command central


Time to celebrate


The night view a great first day!


It has been 2 years and 69 days since we began our Migration